Tax the Traders! Make Wall Street Pay its Share With a "Tobin Tax"
Via truthout.org on 2009-11-07 14:10:32
Posted by Jeff Reifman, 56 days ago.
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"Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags." -1890 speech by Populist leader Mary Ellen Lease, thought to be the prototype for Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz Consider these arresting facts:read more... … more
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